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Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3220, 15 November 1880, Page 3

"steamer Alpena." A search party was sent out along the beach, and picked up other portions of the wreck. At one place the body of a lady, recognised as that of Mrs Bradley, a passenger by the Alpena, was recovered. When, the steamer left Muskegon she had oa board 70 passengers and a crew of between 25 and 30 men. The vessel was valued at 30,000 dols., and was insured for £20,000. A Detroit telegram says :—lt is not deemed possible that any person could have been saved from the wreck pf the Alpena. If a raft had bsen made, it could hardly have held togethor live minutes amid the fierce beating waves, and it is probable that nobody will ever tell the story. Vessel men helieve that she struck a rock somewhere oil" the east shore, and went to pieces a considerable distance from the bench. (Several other bodies were picked up on the 21st October, many of them wearing lifepreservers. Near the pier at Harbour Mouth further evidence of the power of the storm were visible. The whole distance was thickly overlaid with debris from the steamer. The sand wasdottod with apples, which reach all along shore tor over twenty miles. The heavier timbers of tho upper part of the vessel were found a mile above tho pier. Iv many cases inch thick bolts, mod in binding timbers) together, were found protruding to the length of a foot and over from the wood. Su<j;nr boxes, torch handles, sawbuolw, planks, coillns—'of which, strange to say, the vessel had n l;ir<'c stock on board—lay around in countless prolusion, with every prospect, however, of their number beiug greatly diminished very shortly, as wreckers were busy at work all day long. Attached to the molding of a portion of tho Alpena s cabin, which has come ashore, is a lenf of a diary. It is badly chafed and watersoaked, but, by the aid of a glass, was made out: " O this is terrible The steamer is breaking up. 1 am aboard from Grand Haven to Chicago. CiEO. Connor."

WRECK OF THE BARQUE TRADER, Chicago, October 19.

The steam barge Trader, which plies oetweou Chicago and Mnske K an, and does a lumber business, aud which, according to advices and reports of officers of schooners who have seen her wreckage, has been lost and gone to pieces on the east shore of Lake Michigan, was captained by Frank Brown aud manned by a crew of ten. She was of 150 tons, classed 82, and was valued at COOdols. All bauds have probably perished. A STEAMER ASHORE.

The steamer Canopus, Captain llorsfalt, f out Liverpool for Boston with forty-live passengers, has gone ashore in Keil Bay, near the Mull of Kentyre, Scotlaud.

The steamer Canopus went ashore in a dense fog. She was going at full speed when she struck, and it being hi;;li water ehe rsn high on the rocky beach and remained fast.